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Definition of feather stars

feather stars
Comatula Co*mat"u*la (?; 135), n. [NL., fr. L. comatulus having hair neatly curled, dim. fr. coma hair.] (Zo["o]l.) A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

Meaning of feather stars from wikipedia

- form are commonly called sea lilies, while the unstalked forms, called feather stars or comatulids, are members of the largest crinoid order, Comatulida...
- best known for playing Dorien Green in the television sitcom Birds of a Feather from 1989 to 1998 and again from 2014 to 2020. Other television credits...
- Ausichicrinites is a genus of feather stars (comatulids) in the upper Jur****ic period (Tithonian epoch), central western Ethiopia approximately 145 million...
- She is best known for playing Tracey Stubbs in the sitcom Birds of a Feather (1989–1998, 2014–2020) and her appearances as a w****ly panellist on the...
- they are more discreet though present on brittle stars, and have only a feeding function in feather stars. They are part of the water vascular system. Tube...
- The elegant feather star (Tropiometra carinata) is a species of crinoid in the family Tropiometridae. Elegant feather stars may grow to 20 cm in total...
- Holothuroidea (sea cu****bers, with about 1,430 species), and Crinoidea (feather stars and sea lilies, with around 580 species). The extant classes of echinoderms...
- and market share.[citation needed] Between 1994 and 2001, Birds of a Feather stars Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson appeared in a series of adverts which...
- Eucycliophora Dicyemida Crinoidea (sea lilies and feather stars) Asteroidea (star fish) Ophiuroidea (brittle stars) Echinoidea (sea urchins) Holothuroidea (sea...
- (purple sunstar, northern sunstar, smooth sun star) Antedon bifida (rosy feather star) Antedon petasus Leptometra celtica Paracentrotus lividus (purple...